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Tuesday April 1, 2014

Frank Furedi at Spiked Online has published one of the best pieces we have seen on the remarkable inability of American and Western diplomats, NGO employees, and others to see US foreign policy as those on the receiving end might see it.

In the toxic religion of "American exceptionalism" the key liturgical feature is no matter what is done to others by US policy it is only for their own good. The US knows best how to manage the affairs of others, and if you happen to be one of those "others" and disagree, well you simply hate America and are therefore "against us."

How remarkable that George W. Bush's bluster "either you are with us or you are with the terrorists" has become our national motto all these years later -- even as the author of the global war aphorism remains an embarrassment in exile. More ironic even, those "sophisticates" who laughed at the inarticulate Bush now have adopted his core values as their own in the mad push to war with Russia.read on...

Friday August 23, 2013

They lied us into Libya and they are lying us into Syria -- how the NGOs and their interventionist paymasters bring death and destruction under cover of "humanitarian intervention." Read RPI Director Daniel McAdams article, "Humanitarian Wars and Their NGO Foot-Soldiers," in the latest issue of the Free Market.read on...